Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-24
BADGER NEWS.

JAMES MALLoY, while trying to Jump
off a freight train at the Farwell Av-
enue crossing, Milwaukee, on the 18th,
fell beneath the wheels and had both
of his legs badly crushed. He is %
years old and a sailor by occupation.
THE sixth annual convention of the
Wisconsin Woman's Suffrage Associa.
ton will be held in Madison, Septem-
Der 27 to 20.
J. e. THOMAS is serving g. four
months sentence at La Crosse for
stealing g. valise from the railway de-
pot.
THE earnings of the st. Paul road
for the second week in August were
$415, 900 as against $4O8, 900 for the
corresponding week in 1886, an in
crease of $1,000.
The earnings Of the Milwaukee,
Lake Shore & Western road for the
second week in August were $50, 343,
against $50, 966 for the corresponding
week of 1886, an increase OF $685.
377.
CHARLES M. ASH died at Eau Claire
on the 10Th from kick in the head
by q horse.
EDWARD WEBER, aged Is, was
drowned while bathing in the river ut
Milwaukee on the 18th.
OFFICIAL reports show that Wiscon-
sin G.. A. r. members number 10, 662,
q gross gain during hequarter ending
July / Of 667 and net gain of 297.
The receipts of the posts were $780,
918.57.
MRS. l.. W. HoYT, of Madison, and
Mrs. J. Hiles, Of Milwaukee, have been
appointed additional delegates to
to the National Conference of Charities
and Corrections at Omaha, August IS
to 81.
SEVENTY FIVE walters in the Chequ-
amegon Hotel at Ashland struck be.
cause two walters were discharged for
drunkenness. The strikers dined at
a rival hotel.
CLARK PETERSON, Of Eau Claire,
noticed that the water the family was
using tasted badly and on removing
the we'll covering he found in the well
two poisonous snakes alive. twenty
dead toads and host of frogs.
IvER f. BERG, who has been treas
urer for q school in the town of AL
bion, Trempealeau County, for twelve
years, has been lodged in the county
jail on charge of embezzling school
funds. The alleged cash shortage is
| $16O.
OLE HANSON, q Mt. Horeb grain
dealer, is under arrest charged with
assaulting Erik Gylsme, his brother
in-law, with knife with intent to
kill.
IT is understood that the Burlington
Railway Company will shortly COM
mence the erection Of repair shops at
Grand Crossing, near La Crosse.
SEVERAL young mea of Eau Claire
were fined $25 and costs each for vio-
lating the game law.
WILLIAM GRAY, g. pioneer of the
Wisconsin lead region, died at Benton,
aged 65 years.
MILTON UPDEGRAFF, ofDecorah, a.,
who has been assistant astronomer
at the Washburn Observatory at
Madison since his graduation from
the university IN 1884, has accepted
a position in the National Observa-
| tory of the Argentine Republic, S. A.
He will sail from New York on Sep
TENDER IA, leaving Madison the first
week in the month.
THE Stewart Lumber Company has
bought 10000 acres Of pine land in
Ashland County. 1t is said to contain
1OO,UOO,0OO feet. The consideration
is unknown, but it is said is between
$25O,O0O and 100000.
JUDGE MARDEN, Of Bayfield,, SEN
fenced the keeper of g. disreputable
house to eighteen months imprison-
ment at hard labor at Waupun.
EAU CLAIRE is to have knitting
works employing seventy hands.
THE ST. Paul Railway Company has
completed the new depot at Madison.
SAM BROWN pays $4,000 for the
Chequamegon Hotel property at Ash
land. The deal includes all Of block
76, upon which the hotel is located,
block IS, which gives a4OO.foot front
age, and three lots in block 81, where
the Ashland Theater stands.
AN Alma farmer told party of &C.
| quaintances at La Crosse that he had
killed q partridge with his whip while
on his way to the city. Among his
hearers was game warden who ar
rested him. The farmer was fined
$3.50.
ASHLAND has g. new riding park.
A. E. CLINTON, q La Crosse railway
man was robbed of watch valued at
500. A day or two later he received
a watch by express from an un-
known source. The new watch is
worth $500.
IT is reported that the Knights OF
Labor o. Eau Claire have decided TO
petition the mayor for the enforce.
ment in that city of the Sunday laws.
IRON ore has been discovered in La
Crosse County nine miles from the
city OLA Crosse.
NET fishing on the Mississippi River
stopped by state game wardens.